[XeTeX] Newbie Alert: EPS to PDF question

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> On 15 Aug 2007, at 3:38 pm, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Martin Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>  it doesn't appear that xetex supports
>>> the --shell-escape option which is necessary; at least xetex --help
>>> doesn't give that option.
>>
>> Yes, it does:
>>
>>> Kew-PowerBookG4:~ jonathan$ xetex -help
>>> Usage: xetex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
>>>    or: xetex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
>>>    or: xetex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS
>>>   Run XeTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
>> <snip>
>>> [-no]-shell-escape      disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
>>
>> Though I don't remember when I last tested this; hope it still
>> works! :-)
>>
>> JK
>
> Howdy,
>
> Ooops... must have been the leading [-no]... that threw me off :-(.
> By the way, it appears that the default is -shell-escape since I
> didn't need to add that to my xelatex engine and it still was able to
> process pdftricks \write18 commands.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)

Howdy,

Double OOOPS... I just happened to look again and my engines did, in  
fact have
the -shell-escape in the engine. Foot planted deep down my throat. :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)